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Concert: Christmas Jazz with Stephen Barnett and Friends (feat. Bruce Adams)

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Date(s)
December 4, 2025
Location
The Harty Room, Music Building
Time
13:10 - 14:00
Price
Free

Bruce Adams has featured as a guest soloist with the following big bands. Fat Chops Big Band, Nottingham Jazz Orchestra, The Scottish National Orchestra Big Band, Bobby Deans Big band Glasgow, Cote Ouest Big Band Nantes, The Hitchen Big Band Nimes. The Midland Youth Jazz Orchestra, The Wigan Youth Jazz Orchestra, The Smokin Big Band Newcastle, and the BBC Big Band.

Bruce's partnership with Alan Barnes continues to this day with their quintet and many of Alan's suites for Septet and Octet. Bruce is a multiple British Jazz Awards Winner, having been nominated more than twenty times. Bruce continues to ply his trade encompassing jazz styles ranging from Louis Armstrong to the modern-day.

Stephen Barnett began studying music at the junior school of the Royal Northern College of Music in 1973. In 1977 he became an undergraduate at the R.N.C.M., where he helped to found the R.N.C.M. Big Band. He graduated in 1981 whereupon he freelanced with most of the major symphony orchestras in Britain. He joined the Ulster Orchestra in 1982, playing trombone with them until 2010. Stephen plays keyboards and writes and arranges for many different ensembles, including the Ulster Orchestra. He has conducted many ensembles throughout the province and takes an active part in music education. Stephen is the trombone tutor at Queen’s, and in 2002 became the musical director of the Queen’s University big band.

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